Humor: Hard times at Playboy

by Tucson Citizen on Mar 25, 2009, under Opinion

Playboy closed its New York office to cut costs and centralize operations in Chicago. Hugh Hefner put the mansion he owns next to the Playboy Mansion up for sale. They could cut the clothing allowance, but it wouldn’t save much.

Mexico’s drug cartels were reported to be diversifying their operations on the border. They are moving into the lucrative field of human smuggling. You can’t believe how much corporate executives will pay for safe passage out of this country.

President Obama met with the Soviet Union’s final president, Mikhail Gorbachev, in Washington, D.C. There was a hint of the old Cold War tension in the room. Gorbachev wants royalties for Obama’s economic plan or he’s going to sue for plagiarism.

Madagascar had a coup in which the president of the Indian Ocean nation was overthrown by a radio announcer. A disc jockey overthrew a president. In his first national broadcast, he abolished parliament and gave a weather and traffic report.

Sen. Chris Dodd was caught covering for the White House when he said he didn’t know who inserted the AIG bailouts in the stimulus bill. He admitted the next day that he inserted it himself under administration pressure. He was spinning so fast and so hard that storm chasers were following him with cars and video cameras.

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